When
it comes to pop music, conceptual
art, audacious positioning, and fierce artistic independence, there
is simply no way around Bill Drummond. The
KLF, The Timelords, The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (J.A.M.S.), The K
Foundation, The 2K, K2 Plant Hire Ltd. – these were all projects
that aimed to attack established pop practices by means of
easily-acquired sampling technology. Bill ceased being interested in
the pop business a long time ago. Nonetheless, music is still at the
centre of his current endeavours. The present book is a summary of
his recorded lecture at Spoiler, MuseumsQuartier Vienna on 31 October
2002, which for the past fifteen years has been available only as a
single-copy library DVD. Despite the fact that Bill is loath to look
back at the past and always directs his focus to the here and now, or
rather because of this, I deemed it necessary to highlight his vast
artistic range, development, and process of the last thirty years by
means of this contemporary document and to present it to a younger
generation. For the concept of time plays a special role in
Drummond's work. Whether as The Timelords, or in songs like 'What
Time is Love?' or '3 A.M. Eternal,' or via metaphorical numbers like
23, 33 ⅓,
or 45, or his current World Tour 2014-2025 Bill has always thought,
planned, acted, and reacted in structural time periods. Second,
expanded and limited Edition.
DER
KONTERFEI 031 / Paperback / English / 56 pages / Limited edition of 300 / ISBN
978-3-903043-20-6 / Release Date:
March 2017